Posted on 02/22/2021 10:07:31 AM PST by Red Badger
SALT LAKE CITY — Intermountain Healthcare doctors announced new mammogram guidelines Tuesday in response to a surprising new side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine.
They say women who recently received a COVID-19 vaccine may have to reschedule their yearly mammogram.
“When one receives a vaccination there is an inflammatory response in the arm,” said Dr. Brett Parkinson, medical director of Intermountain Healthcare’s Breast Care Center.
In the past four weeks, doctors have seen swollen lymph nodes on screening mammograms of women who have recently been vaccinated.
“Whenever we see these on a normal screening mammogram we call those patients back because it can either mean metastatic breast cancer which travels to the lymph nodes or lymphoma or leukemia.”
While inflammation is the body’s normal response to a vaccine, Dr. Parkinson says it’s surprising how many swollen lymph nodes they’ve been seeing.
“With the Moderna vaccine it’s about 11% after the first dose and 16% after the second dose. We believe it’s comparable for the Pfizer vaccine as well.”
In response, Intermountain rolled out new guidelines in accordance with the Society of Breast Imaging.
Women should get their mammogram before their first dose of the vaccine, or wait four weeks after their second dose of the vaccine.
“We don’t want these patients to get a false positive to have this sort of alarm,” Parkinson said.
If there are worrisome symptoms, such as a suspicious lump, Dr. Parkinson says don’t delay getting a mammogram.
“Breast cancer kills women between 40 and 50,000 a year. Many of those deaths are needless,” Parkinson said. “I know that screening mammographies are the only test that has been shown over the last 30 to 40 years to decrease the death rate of breast cancer.”
If you have an opportunity to get the vaccine, Dr. Parkinson urges you to get it because appointments are limited. He adds that rescheduling a mammogram screening a month or two won’t be as impactful.
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The normal flu vaccine doesn’t cause this kind of a reaction...
If a mammogram shows you have a swollen arm then I think they may be doing it wrong.😜
And none of your links has anything about women shouldn’t get mammograms for a month after a flu shot because it screws up the tests.
Right?
You said that the flu shot doesn’t cause swelling in the arm and the lymph node. It does. Not always, but it’s a known side effect that happens.
As for mammograms, they give false positives for all sorts of things, including swollen lymph nodes. That’s why the American Cancer Society no longer recommends routine mammograms for women under 45: all the false positives were unnecessarily scaring women who had nothing to worry about.
No - you’re putting words in my mouth to defend your hyperbolic defense of an untested genetic technology.
My response was to the fact that they’re delaying mammograms because of the adverse reactions.
Something they’ve NEVER done in decades of traditional flu vaccines.
One medical practice in one place is recommending that certain women delay routine screening mammograms for a few weeks in order to reduce false positives.
Who’s jumping to hyperbole here?
It even says right in the article that inflammatory response is completely normal after vaccination. They’re simply seeing a higher rate of lymph node swelling after a particular vaccine. They’re not concerned by it. They’re not telling people it’s bad (it isn’t). And they aren’t telling women who have a risk factor (like finding a lump) to delay at all.
They’re simply suggesting that certain women hold off a few weeks to reduce false positives. In response, you’re making claims about how this is some kind of wild and crazy unprecedented response that must indicate some major problem. Does it get more difficult to maintain that narrative as hundreds of millions of people around the world get vaccinated without a problem?
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Mammograms: a super spreader event.
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Are these future deaths going to be caused by COVID 19?
I thought that was enema......................
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